Improvement in refrigerators



GA. BANTA.

REFRIGERATOR. T \I0.1'88,493, Patented March 20,1877.

Nm. FHOTD-HIHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D C."

STATES PA'rN- FFI-CE.,

GEORGE A. BANTA, OF NEW YORK, Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN REFRIGERATORS.

Specication forming partof Letters Patent N o. 188,493, dated March 20,1877; application tiled August 21, 1876.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, GEORGE A. BANTA,'

of the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Refrigerators, of

which the following is a specification:

, metallic plates or within sheet-metal vessels,

the cooling being accomplished by conduction through the metal.

My present invention consists in the combination, with the refrigerator, of a wire-work holder, the meshes of which are sufficiently small to retain the ice and salt. The result is that the atmospheric air is allowed to circulate directly through and in contact with the frigoriic mixture, and become cooled to a lower temperature than heretofore, and, at the same time, the objectionable condensation upon the sheet metal is avoided, because the condensation of vapors from the atmosphere takes place upon the ice itself. Y

l arrange, in connection with the ice-basket, deliectors of sheet metal that direct the currents of atmosphere upon the ice, and, at the same time, insure the delivery of the water into a receptacle, and asl this water melted from the ice is very cold, I use it around a water-cooler.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical section of .my refrigerator, and Fig.2 is a plan of the same, with the top open.

The refrigerator-case is made of the bottom a, sides b, and with a closed back, and a front,

preferably with doors, and with a top, c, with a ap,d, that is opened for ,inserting the ice in a crushed condition, and either mixed with salt or not. v

The holder for the ice is made of wire-netting, preferably with galvanized wire-netting, with meshes of a size suitable to answer the purposes desired. flhe holder is to Vbe made of a form adapted to the shape and character of the refrigerator. I have shown the same, with the curved endsf and V-shaped central partition g. The sides of the holdermay b e either open netting or closed sheet metal. I have shown the latter at h l1., and these are placed at a sufficient distance from the fron-t and back of the refrigerator to leave air-spaces, v

as at h', for the air to circulate through.

The deflector-plates l l serve to deliect any water that may drop from the basket, and insure its final passage to the pan m. There are openings at n between the deflector-plates, through whichthe air circulates back to the body of the refrigerator. At the lower ends of the deflector-plates l there lare troughs that are slightly inclined and open into the end troughs n' leading to the pan m.

The shelves o o may be movable. It is preferable to make them in the form of trays or drawers, with perforatedbottoms or nettings.

The water that melts from the ice and runs into the chamber or pan m is led by the pipe r to a tank, s, with an overflow-pipe at t and into this tankythe vessel u is inserted.. This is preferably used for containing water to be cooled; but it may be used for any material, either fsolid or liquid, that is to be cooled. -I have shown two vessels, u and u', inserted in the tank s, and suspended from the top plates n, and provided with covers fw. l

I claim as my invention- 1. The wire-work ice-holder for a refrigerator, made with the central partition g, in com= bination with the pan m and' deflector-plates l, ysubstantially as set forth.

2. The combination, in a refrigerator, of the wire-work ice-basket f y, sides h, and airspaces h', substantially as set forth. 'Signed by me this 31st day of July, A. D. 1876. v

GEO. A. BANTA.

Witnesses: l

GEO. T. PINGKNEY, CEAS.' H. SMITH. 

